I have to ask again--how sick do you have to be?

News out today: Syrian forces fire on funeral in Damascus, kill 1 (Link to story at bottom). How sick do you have to be to open fire on a funeral procession? Yet it happens repeatedly in the Middle East? To go further, how sick do you have to be to strap bombs to yourself to kill a member of your own religion who believes slightly different than you? (Sunnis killing Shi'as and vice versa). Another step--how sick do you have to be to kill your own countrymen in this fashion? Yet another--how sick do you have to be to kill innocent civilians lined up for whatever reason in this same fashion? Finally, how really sick do you have to be to strap bombs to yourself and kill your fellow countrymen because they're lined up to become police officers or to join your country's military so you can make it safer and hopefully build a stronger, more functioning society? I don't think I'll ever understand. Link: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/18/syrian-forces-fire-funeral-damascus-kill-1/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Searching for logic and intelligence

How can you expect to deal with people realistically when they and their societies can and do make the following headlines possible, time and again?

Shrine bombing kills 41 in central Pakistan  Dailymotion - PAKISTAN BOMBING KILLS 6 - a ...

Bombing kills 5 at police station in Pakistan - Yahoo! News


Bombing near Jerusalem bus stop kills woman, 30 hurt


Car bombing kills 10 in Afghanistan


Afghan truck bombing kills 23 - World - CBC News


BBC News - Seven die in Pakistan suicide bike bombing


Pakistan suicide bombing kills 36 at funeral - World - CBC News


Pakistan shrine suicide bombings kill 50 ...

And this was just the only the first page of links from the search "bombing kills news" on Yahoo!

Link:  http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oG7nLIMZpNpEcAoitXNyoA?p=bombing+kills+news&fr2=sb-top&fr=ush-news&type_param=

How do you fight the insanity and ignorance of a suicide bomber?

There's a story out today from Russia (I guess that's what we're calling that place that collapsed) that some suicide bomber struck there with a vengeance: Suicide attack in Russia kills 17, wounds over 130 By SERGEI VENYAVSKY, Associated Press Writer; ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia – A suicide car bomber hit the central market of a major city in Russia's North Caucasus on Thursday, killing at least 17 and wounding more than 130 people in one of the worst attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said...At least 17 people, including the suicide bomber, were killed and 133 were wounded in the explosion, said Alexander Pogorely of the Emergency Situations Ministry's branch in southern Russia. He said 98 of the injured were hospitalized, many in grave condition. So they strike like this in Iraq and Iran and through the Middle East and other parts of Southeast Asia and we have our military and tanks and jet airplanes and bombs but tell me--how do you fight the ignorance and insanity of someone who can and will blow him/her self up (mostly "hims") for what they see as a "worthy cause"? How do you deal with that? How do you get people educated enough, quickly enough that they don't do this to their fellow countrymen, to their own local neighborhood/city/country? What did this guy expect to achieve, in this instance? Is he part of a larger group, pushing for some change? Fighting this mindset seems virtually impossible. Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100909/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_caucasus_violence/print